"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts."

"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
"Gordon Sinclair"

And this:

The drawings shown here are from Hitler's failed attempt to gain entry into the Vienna Academy of Art. The drawings are set to be auctioned.

(via the telegraph)

Some have speculated that Hitler's rejection from art college helped shape his character in later years.

He believed that it was a Jewish professor who had rejected his application to study at the academy.

The works consist of nudes, human figures, various objects and landscapes including buildings.

Most are dated 1908 - the year he was rejected by the academy for the second time and was not even permitted to sit the exam - and some are dated a year later that were added to his portfolio.

Hitler moved to Vienna as a young man in 1905 and lived a bohemian life, making small amounts of money by selling pictures he copied from postcards.

At one point he ended up in a hostel for the homeless and later he claimed it was in Vienna where the fires of his anti-Semitism were ignited.

Many artists are quite passionate about their work and rejection can be something taken very personally. Rumour has it that jazz piano great, Keith Jarrett, was told by a professor at Berkeley that he had no talent and that he should find another vocation. Rather than disappearing into oblivion, Keith got even. He practiced all the harder and became great.

Hitler, on the other hand, was obviously unbalanced from an early age and the rejection of his art might have been a trigger for the monstrously evil deeds he did later. One can only speculate on what might have happened had he been accepted.